[BC] German Radio Spying 1938

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While attending college, I worked four days a week, full--time, in  
radio.  I then worked two days a week at Radio Shack (now, Cell Phone  
Shack).  DC had a disco station and one of the other sales people  
loved it.  Radio Shack sold this huge, expensive receiver of about 120  
Watts per channel, and these really big, bass heavy speakers.  This  
was the center of our stereo display.  This guy would put on the  
station, loud, and turn the bass up all the way.  It drive me nuts.  I  
had plans to buy a signal generator to jam the signal, however, I  
found a better way.

I would just tune another receiver 10.7 MHz above the station in  
question which would block the signal.  This is the reason airlines  
don't want receivers to be used in airliners.  They are afraid that  
the LO might block nav or com radios.  Of course, this won't happen  
because no designer is stupid enough to put an LO in the aircraft  
band.  It is narrow enough that it is easy to avoid.  Designers avoid  
the military aircraft band as well.

--chip

On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 11
> From: Stephanie Weil <stephanienyc at gmail.com>
>
> Even some modern-day radios have that problem.  On FM!  I had a Kloss
> Tivoli Model 1.  At certain frequencies, the LO would blot out spots
> on other FM radios in my apartment.   And i Even out into the hall.
> Pretty annoying.  And it wasn't just THAT one radio.  Every sample I
> tried of that model did the same thing.
>
> Stephanie Weil